Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 28 May 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion.
Mr. Yuming Lian:
To come in on the Deputy's second question about segmenting it and Ms Doyle's point about having the door open for students and letting them be prepared to question the leaders of the country, according to assets.gov.ie, 40 schools will be selected to be in phase one, which is the 2025-26 academic year, of introducing climate action and sustainable development. The only statistics I could find, which are from 2019, state that there was a total of 722 secondary schools in Ireland. This means that, at most, less than 6% of secondary schools will have the subject in their curriculum in 2025, at the earliest . It is less a question of segmenting it to those who are interested and more a question of getting it rolled out to the wider public.
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